[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: SemDial 2014 registration open

[Raquel Fernandez]

The Semdial'14/DialWatt organising committee is happy to announce that 
workshop registration is now open until 6th August. You can find details 
at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/Semdial/

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		semdial 2014 - DialWatt
THE 18TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE
	
	http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/Semdial/

                   1-3 September 2014
                        Edinburgh

		Registration Deadline: 6th August 2014

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DialWatt will be the 18th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which 
aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and 
pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and 
pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, 
philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.


*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*

The SemDial venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of 
cutting edge research on all topics related to the semantics and 
pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to:

- dialogue and discourse structure
- common ground/mutual belief
- combination of statistical and symbolic methods
- multimodal interaction
- dialogue management
- turn-taking and interaction control
- categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora
- child-adult interaction
- language learning through dialogue
- strategic communication
- social intelligent interaction
- designing and evaluating dialogue systems


In addition to presentations and system demonstrations, the program 
includes talks by four invited speakers:

- Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh)
- Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh)
- Matthew Purver (Queen Mary, University of London)
- Michael Schober (New School for Social Research)

*RELATED EVENTS*

In 2014 the workshop will be hosted by the Interaction Lab 
(https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/), Heriot-Watt 
University. DialWatt will be collocated with RO-MAN 2014 
(http://rehabilitationrobotics.net/ro-man14/) and AMLaP 2014 
(http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/AMLaP/).

The summer school in Psychological and Computational Models of Language 
Production 
(http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/RefNet/index.html) and the 
world famous Edinburgh festival take place just before DialWatt. 
http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/planning-for-edinburgh-festivals-2014

*TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:*

Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
Philippe Muller (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

*LOCAL ORGANISATION:*

Arash Eshghi (general chair)
Mary Ellen Foster (local organiser)
Andy Taylor (website).

*PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:*

Nicholas Asher, Timo Baumann,Luciana Benotti, Nate Blaylock, Holly 
Branigan, Valeria De Paiva, Paul Dekker, David Devault, Arash Eshghi, 
Raquel Fernández, Victor Ferreira, Kallirroi Georgila, Jonathan 
Ginzburg, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Markus Guhe, Pat Healey, Heriberto 
Cuayahuitl, Anna Hjalmarsson, Amy Isard,  Simon Keizer, Ruth Kempson, 
Alexander Koller, Pierre Lison, Staffan Larsson, Alex Lascarides, Colin 
Matheson, Gregory Mills, Chris Potts, Laurent Prévot, Matthew Purver, 
Hannes Rieser, David Schlangen, Gabriel Skantze, Amanda Stent, Matthew 
Stone, David Traum, Nigel Ward

*SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:*

Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam)
David Schlangen (Bielefeld University)
http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/

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